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Skill wage premia, employment, and cohort effects : are workers in Germany all of the same type?

Fitzenberger, Bernd (contributor); Kohn, Karsten (contributor) - 2006

-specific unemployment rates in 1997. The required nominal wage reductions range from 8.8 to 12.2% and are the higher the lower the employees …' skill level. -- labor demand ; heterogeneity ; age ; skill ; wage structure ; employment ; cohort effects ; unemployment …

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Labor Market Transitions and the Wage Structure in Germany

Fitzenberger, Bernd; Garloff, Alfred - In: Journal of Economics and Statistics (Jahrbuecher fuer … 227 (2007) 2, pp. 115-152

Equilibrium search theory suggests that the wage distribution in a cross section of workers is closely related to labor market transitions and associated wage changes. Accordingly, job-to-job transitions are central in explaining the wage distribution. This paper usese the IAB employment...

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The Phillips Curve and NAIRU Revisited: New Estimates for Germany

Fitzenberger, Bernd; Franz, Wolfgang; Bode, Oliver - In: Journal of Economics and Statistics (Jahrbuecher fuer … 228 (2008) 5+6, pp. 465-496

estimates the unemployment rate that is compatible with a tolerable inflation rate of say 2 percent following roughly the … compatible with 2 percent inflation in Germany is currently around 7 percent if the definition of unemployment follows the …

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International Trade and the Skill Structure of Wages and Employment in West Germany.

Fitzenberger, Bernd - In: Journal of Economics and Statistics (Jahrbuecher fuer … 219 (1999) 1+2, pp. 67-89

and technology effects for high-skilled labor while wage bargaining institutions were holding up relative wages of low …-skilled labor. The combined effect accounts for the disproportionate increase of unemployment for low-skilled workers. …

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The role of unemployment and job change when estimating the returns to migration

Emmler, Julian; Fitzenberger, Bernd - 2020

Estimating the returns to migration from East to West Germany, we focus on pre-migration employment dynamics, earnings uncertainty, and job change. Migrants are found to be negatively selected with respect to labor market outcomes, with a large drop in earnings and employment during the last few...

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Get training or wait? : Long-run employment effects of training programs for the unemployed in West Germany

Fitzenberger, Bernd (contributor); … - 2006

inflows into unemployment for the years 1986/87 and 1993/94 and apply local linear matching based on the estimated propensity … score to estimate the effects of training programs starting during 1 to 2, 3 to 4, and 5 to 8 quarters of unemployment. The …

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New insights on unemployment duration and post unemployment earnings in Germany : censored Box-Cox quantile regression at work

Fitzenberger, Bernd (contributor); … - 2007

periods and the size of unemployment benefits on unemployment durations and post-unemployment earnings in West Germany. For … the unemployment duration, we estimate censored Box-Cox quantile regression, which is robust with respect to the … the length of benefit entitlement is only of minor importance for the duration of search unemployment and for post …

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Employment effects of the provision of specific professional skills and techniques in Germany

Fitzenberger, Bernd (contributor); … - 2005

professional skills and techniques (SPST). Using the inflows into unemployment for the year 1993, the empirical analysis uses local … programs starting during 1 to 6, 7 to 12, and 13 to 24 months of unemployment. The empirical results show a negative lock … estimated treatment effects is quite similar for the three time intervals of elapsed unemployment considered. The positive …

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Temporary overpessimism: job loss expectations following a large negative employment shock

Emmler, Julian; Fitzenberger, Bernd - 2021

Job loss expectations were widespread among workers in East Germany after reunification with West Germany. Though experiencing a large negative employment shock, East German workers were still overpessimistic immediately after reunification with respect to their job risk. Over time, job loss...

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End-of-year spending and the long-run employment effects of training programs for the unemployed

Fitzenberger, Bernd; Furdas, Marina; Sajons, Christoph - 2016

This study re-estimates the employment effects of training programs for the unemployed using exogenous variation in participation caused by budget rules in Germany in the 1980s and early 1990s, resulting in the infamous "end-of-year spending". In addition to estimating complier effects with...

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